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Thinking

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So, to get started, thinking is obeying the imperative to suspend all imperatives: in this suspension, imperatives approach or occur to one, appearing as possibilities which the thinker in his/her detachment follows; ultimately, the emergence of one imperative after another leads us to the founding imperative of thought, to cease obeying commands directing us to efface the ostensive sign.

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A model of thinking is always a model of a disciplinary space.

I don’t deny that originary thinking is also compatible with liberalism, just that it only and intrinsically is so.

The problem of political thinking is to scale up the self-discipline we practice so as to exercise sovereignty where we can.

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